Foshay Learning Center: The score is middle of the pack. The trajectory isn't.
Foshay Learning Center sits mid-pack on raw proficiency — and it's climbing faster than most schools anywhere near it — and that holds when you follow the same students across grades.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 51 | 12% | 35% | +5.4 | 21.1% | 0.5% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Foshay Learning Center scores 51 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 69th percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “35% proficient” and call it done. Foshay Learning Center deserves a closer read. The school sits in Los Angeles, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
The headline number: +5.4pp separates this year's grade 3 from its grade 5. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Following the same students from 2023 G3 → 2025 G5 points the same way.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 1st to the 69th percentile since 2019 — past roughly 3700 elementary schools.
The pandemic drop is behind this school: 35% of students meet the standard today, above the 25% who did in 2019.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 45% | 33% | 17% | 45% | 30% |
| Grade 4 | 30% | 17% | 41% | 50% | 50% |
| Grade 5 | 4% | 16% | 22% | 48% | 46% |
| Grade 6 | 39% | 30% | 27% | 30% | 44% |
| Grade 7 | 35% | 37% | 33% | 30% | 41% |
| Grade 8 | 28% | 42% | 32% | 36% | 36% |
| Grade 11 | 49% | 49% | 62% | 67% | 67% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 39% | 39% | 21% | 30% | 30% |
| Grade 4 | 30% | 11% | 26% | 33% | 29% |
| Grade 5 | 0% | 4% | 6% | 26% | 25% |
| Grade 6 | 29% | 11% | 16% | 21% | 22% |
| Grade 7 | 23% | 14% | 13% | 20% | 22% |
| Grade 8 | 15% | 12% | 11% | 16% | 16% |
| Grade 11 | 25% | 14% | 19% | 29% | 22% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 10.8pp across grades; the floor rises 15.8pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Foshay Learning Center in Los Angeles, 43.5% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.9% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Foshay Learning Center outperforms its district average for low-income students by 2.5 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (19.7% Math proficient); Hispanic students (47.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 40.9 percentage points for english learner students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 785 students tested.
6 of 15 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 5.3pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.5pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Grades 7–8 students miss school at roughly twice the rate of TK/K students (24.5% vs 13.0%). Chronic absence here concentrates in the upper grades.
Where the path goes
Foshay Learning Center serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
These measure different things: this figure is spending attributed to this campus, while district-wide figures also include central administration, districtwide programs, and the state's pension contributions made on the district's behalf — costs that never get assigned to a single school. The district number runs higher at nearly every school, not just this one.
$1,703 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
At 1,530 students, this school is well above the typical California elementary school (≈480).
On the state's science test (CAST), 23% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
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Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 20 | 10% | 20% | 45% | 25% | 30% | −13 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 13% | 38% | 17% | 33% | 50% | +5 |
| Grade 5 | 24 | 21% | 25% | 21% | 33% | 46% | −2 |
| Grade 6 | 199 | 14% | 30% | 21% | 36% | 44% | −3 |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 12% | 29% | 23% | 37% | 41% | −7 |
| Grade 8 | 258 | 7% | 29% | 22% | 42% | 36% | −10 |
| Grade 11 | 180 | 29% | 38% | 18% | 15% | 67% | +20 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 20 | 5% | 25% | 20% | 50% | 30% | −16 |
| Grade 4 | 24 | 8% | 21% | 42% | 29% | 29% | −12 |
| Grade 5 | 24 | 13% | 13% | 38% | 38% | 25% | −10 |
| Grade 6 | 205 | 7% | 16% | 25% | 53% | 22% | −13 |
| Grade 7 | 204 | 8% | 14% | 29% | 49% | 22% | −12 |
| Grade 8 | 264 | 6% | 11% | 16% | 67% | 16% | −16 |
| Grade 11 | 180 | 6% | 16% | 31% | 47% | 22% | −2 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 471 | 3% | 19% | 61% | 16% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 785 | 43.5% | +3 | +5 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 760 | 47.3% | +6 | +9 |
| Black/African American | 123 | 36.1% | +0 | +3 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Foshay Learning Center ← | — | 51 | 11.5% | 35.0% | +5.4 | 0.5% |
| Hoover Street Elementary | 2.9 mi | 62 | 42.7% | 68.5% | +12.7 | 0.3% |
| Sixty-First Street Elementary | 2.7 mi | 61 | 18.8% | 38.5% | −3.7 | 0.4% |
| Queen Anne Place Elementary | 2.7 mi | 58 | 29.6% | 56.4% | +7.1 | 0.1% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 16 | 1 | #5448 | 6.7% | 24.9% | 17.3% | 0.8% | -40.4pp |
| 2022 | 13 | 2 | #5612 | 9.0% | 19.9% | 29.7% | 0.9% | -26.1pp |
| 2023 | 28 | 20 | #4561 | 7.4% | 22.1% | 25.3% | 1.3% | -4.9pp |
| 2024 | 39 | 43 | #3276 | 12.6% | 38.7% | 22.4% | 1.9% | -0.5pp |
| 2025 | 51 | 69 | #1780 | 11.5% | 35.0% | 21.1% | 0.5% | +5.4pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 17.3% | 20.9% | +3.6pp |
| Male | 17.3% | 22.6% | +5.3pp |
| Black/African American | 27.5% | 25.2% | -2.3pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 15.5% | 20.9% | +5.4pp |
| Students with Disabilities | 22.6% | 26.1% | +3.5pp |
| English Learners | 18.1% | 28.3% | +10.2pp |
| Homeless | 51.8% | 42.6% | -9.2pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 17.6% | 22.5% | +4.9pp |
| All Students | 17.3% | 21.8% | +4.5pp |
| Two or More Races | — | 35.3% | — |
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